Re: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

2008-03-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
2008/3/17, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about Grub2? The time must be getting near.. Anyone use it? I was able to make it work in QEMU in the "new ext3 on LVM2 on /dev/hda1, no /boot partition" case. But the lack of up-to-date documentation in the tarball and incompleteness of the docu

patch for grub-0.97 [was: Re: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0]

2008-03-17 Thread Jens Stroebel
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Hello, as explained in http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2161 (a blocker), due to recent changes in e2fsprogs, Grub-0.97 no longer works (cannot read any files from the resulting filesystem, cannot be installed into MBR, and the book is thus horribly bro

Re: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

2008-03-17 Thread Sebastian Faulborn
>> > > Did anyone investigate the boot loader options further? What should be >> > > done for > >> > > LFS-7.0? >> > > > > What about Grub2? The time must be getting near.. Anyone use it? > >> Version 1.95 was not installable at all if root is on LVM2 (even if >> /boot is on a pl

Re: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

2008-03-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Sebastian Faulborn wrote: > How do you mean - "not installable at all if root is on LVM2"? I have been > using LVM2 on root together with grub for the last 2 years without problems... That was about Grub2. Grub legacy, with a separate /boot partition, works fine. And I mean that the command "grub

Re: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0

2008-03-17 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Original Message - From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:46 AM Subject: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0 > Hello, > > as explained in http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2161 (a blocker), > due to r